Talk:исоусъ

Capitalization

@Vorziblix: Your move summary said "no lexical capitalization in Old Church Slavonic". Do you mean for this word or for all words? --WikiTiki89 14:48, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

For all words. At least as far as the canonical OCS texts are concerned, capitalization was used to mark titles and incipits, not to distinguish any particular words. Vorziblix (talk) 14:55, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Good to know. --WikiTiki89 14:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

The same is true of Classical Latin and Classical AG, but we still capitalize. Is there any reason we should make an exception for OCS? —JohnC5 15:01, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Also a good point. However, Classical Greek and Latin texts are often printed today with capitalized names. @Vorziblix: Do you know if the same is true for OCS? --WikiTiki89 15:03, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

OCS is (these days) mostly only printed in academic contexts, which tend to reproduce its original capitalization. A quick online search also yields texts where everything is decapitalized, but I can’t say how universal this is. I assume we modernize capitalization for Classical Latin and Ancient Greek because our definition of Ancient Greek extends through the Byzantine period, and our Classical Latin entries are unified under one header with our Medieval Latin, but this wouldn’t be particularly applicable to OCS. Vorziblix (talk) 15:14, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@Wikitiki89: Some more datapoints: Kurz, Dostal, and Sterbova’s dictionary of OCS decapitalizes everything. Cejtlin, Večerki, and Blagovoj’s dictionary puts the headwords in all-caps and everything else in all-lowercase. Gardiner’s grammar reproduces some texts as they originally were and modernizes capitalization for others, with no consistency. Huntley’s grammar decapitalizes everything. Nandris’s grammar reproduces the original caps. Alypy capitalizes the beginning of each line and nothing else. Kamčatnov reproduces the original capitalization. Stecenko’s reader does likewise, as does Auty’s reader. Vorziblix (talk) 15:33, 7 April 2016 (UTC)